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by pjmorris 7y ago
This corporation should be dissolved, its assets expropriated, and its management consigned to finding jobs through the classifieds.
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by pjmorris 7y ago
Rummaging around the local mall bookstore in ~1982, I came upon 'Software Tools in Pascal', by Kernighan and Plaugher. I fell in love with the ideas, and the prose. It became the first of what is now a nearly complete collection o
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by pjmorris 7y ago
I may have been exaggerating about my wife's responsibilities.
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by pjmorris 7y ago
My wife likes to sit in what she calls 'the Mafia seat', the seat in a restaurant that is best-protected by walls, etc, from behind, and that gives the best view of the rest of the room, so you can see what or who is coming. She&#
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by pjmorris 7y ago
I imagine that the funding behind climate changed believers is dwarfed by the funding behind climate change deniers, primarily because we've been a fossil-fuel driven economy for about a century [0], and because it's a lot easier
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by pjmorris 7y ago
I'm no gold bug, but, looking at the graphs in the article, it's interesting how GDP decouples from resource use around the same time that the US went off of the gold standard.
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by pjmorris 7y ago
The research referred to in the article is my evidence for what I called 'product shrinkage' and what the article calls 'reduced material needs', namely: He had found substantial evidence not only that Americans were co
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by pjmorris 7y ago
Are you suggesting that scientific evidence for product shrinkage or for an increase in the money supply can't be found, and so my arguments have to be anecdotal?
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by pjmorris 7y ago
> The money given to banks didn't result in increased lending but instead went into financial markets buying up assets. This statement is precisely what I meant by 'put a lot of credit in to the economy, which shows up as econo
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by pjmorris 7y ago
I think consumers would be more willing to see the number on the label go up if they saw the number on their paychecks go up. Wages in the US peaked about 1968, a number of forces have been working to reengineer that deal ever since. Simila
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by pjmorris 7y ago
Someone I know posted a picture of an empty rolodex today, saying that they'd moved their friends to 'the cloud.' I'm sure you can look at your phone apps and see other things that would've been physical objects ten
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by pjmorris 7y ago
Your observation is right on target, and it has been predicted and validated [0]. The people who originally developed agile understood this, but it's one of the kinds of things that doesn't really sink in in many cases. [0] &#x27
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by pjmorris 7y ago
Actually, that's exactly how banking systems fall apart, if you push it too far.
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by pjmorris 7y ago
I grew up in South Florida. Jacques Cousteau was one of my childhood heroes. I snorkeled from early on, and got SCUBA certified as soon as I could. I dove many times off the Florida mainland and the Keys. Never had to fly to dive, just driv
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by pjmorris 7y ago
> basically need the entire market to become illiquid. Which came dramatically close to happening in 2008, see, e.g. [0]. [0] http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~sternfin/pschnabl/kacperczyk_sch...
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by pjmorris 7y ago
FTA: > Janie Crane: “An off switch?” > Metrocop: “She'll get years for that. Off switches are illegal!” > -Max Headroom, season 1, episode 6, “The Blanks” As a callow 18 year old in 1980, I suggested to one of my parent's
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by pjmorris 7y ago
Not the GP, but I think that the optimizations that lead each locality to have a distinct look came from local minima and maxima (e.g. availability of building materials, local construction practices, function of the building, desire to ple
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by pjmorris 7y ago
> Making the issue appear simple and traceable to a single problem seems like a great way to convince a jury. Or, an electorate. Maybe oversimplification is the path to popularity.
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by pjmorris 7y ago
I think fuzzing, like afl, is an example of the kind of machine learning that might be useful to software engineering. If we could just figure out how to fuzz requirements along with input fields, we might get somewhere.
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by pjmorris 7y ago
Agreed. I recently read Fernando Corbato's Turing Award speech, "On Building Systems That Will Fail" [0] Corbato drove development of Multics and its predecessor, CTSS, laying the foundation for much of current operating syst
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by pjmorris 7y ago
To take the other side of this coin, where is the evidence that evidence makes a difference? At least, where is the evidence that evidence is what convinces a software developer or manager to change something about their process? There are
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by pjmorris 7y ago
> It’s only important to have human readable labels if a human has to interpret directly I admit it's a failure of imagination on my part, but in what context would a human never need to interpret the result? It seems to me that for
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by pjmorris 7y ago
> Unfortunately, the current regulatory environment still makes this illegal/impossible, given that executives are still legally bound to create value for shareholders. It's a myth that executives are legally bound to create va
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Is there a society in the world where self-centeredness is not common? What do you mean by systemic?
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by pjmorris 7y ago
"The internet" may be a concept, but the router your part of the mesh connects to is a physical machine that may be out of power. The GP's questions remain valid and unanswered.
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by pjmorris 7y ago
Seems like 'Deep Learning' [0] might suit for your first type of book. For the second type of book, may I suggest 'The Book of Why' by Judea Pearl. It isn't focused specifically on deep learning, but it is focused p
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by pjmorris 7y ago
I've wondered whether an unbaked pizza could be slotted in to a preheated pizza stone 'cage', slipped in to a heat sink type cooler for transportation, and bake while it's on its way to its destination. Assuming the deta
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by pjmorris 7y ago
Not really an expert, but here goes: JS is for talking to computers, text is for talking to people. Accessibility, practically speaking, often means text-to-speech. At that point, JS is just gobbledygook in the way.
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I would donate my kidney if it'd help Knuth live long enough to finish his series!
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by pjmorris 7y ago
I'm willing to bet a US dollar that at least some of the money you hold is tied to some national group, a government.

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